Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher, (Paperback)

from jaredross

In Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher, Lenore Hart neatly turns Mark Twain's world of Tom Sawyer on its head. Hart has extended the child-like stories of Twain to create a strong-willed, flawed young woman who must survive the perils of an adult world. A great deal of the novel takes pla...

from tjsjohanna

This novel had what I most enjoy in novels - a suitably complex plot, realistic emotional motivations, a main character who is interesting and appealing. And there is the clever interaction of the novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", the real-life Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain, and the supposed ...

from theepicrat

This is definitely cut from a different cloth than Tom Sawyer (more serious than whimsical), but I feel that Lenore did a wonderful job with bringing Becky's character to life. What was even more interesting is that Lenore chose to include Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) into the cast of chara...

from lmedgerton

A good subtitle for Becky might be the true biography of Tom Sawyer. Becky does tell the tale, from Becky Thatcher's perspective, of what Sam Clemens, (definitely not the alter ego of Tom Sawyer), got wrong in his book. But it also recounts what life was like in Missouri during the Civil War, whe...

from fletch68

I was hesitant at first to start reading this book. Being a man I of course thought it would be a sickeningly, sweet, romance novel Such as the ones my mother use to spend hours reading. I however am glad I decided to read and enjoy this book. I have always enjoyed a fresh and alternative point o...